Structure of Complex Images

AvRobert B. Ray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television

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Ray offers closereadings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as La Règle du Jeu, It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Breathless, and Tickets.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:468 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
Antal sidor:259
Upplaga:20001
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030406301

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Robert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is the author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema: 1930-1980, The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy, How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies, The ABCs of Classic Hollywood, and Walden X 40. He is also a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, Opposite Sex, and Wide Awake.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Film Studies and Its Problems.- 1. Movie vs. Screen: The Great Divide in Film Studies.- 2. The Automatic Auteur, or, A Certain Tendency in Film Criticism.- Part II: Cinephilia, Cavell, and Description-as-Method.- 3. Cinephilia and Method.- 4. Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies.- Part III: Movie Star Performance.- 5. The Mystery of Movie Stardom.- 6. Vertigo: Why Doesn’t Scottie Recognize “Madeleine”?.- 7. Notes on Fred Astaire.- Part IV: Memory Theaters.- 8. Memory Theaters: Casablanca and Breathless.- Part V: The Structure of Complex Images.- 9. The Cukor “Problem”: David Copperfield, Holiday, and The Philadelphia Story.- 10. The Structure of Complex Images: Abbas Kiarostami’s Tickets.